Personalization of Spinal Cord Injury Mobility and Transfer Support Application based on Case-Based Reasoning

In this decade with increasing technology development and wide usage of mobile devices, using applications in teaching patients specially the ones with particular restrictions such as Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) patients who are not able to move that easily, could be beneficial. On the other hand, due to their various body capabilities, the teaching material could not be the same for all the patients. Thus personalizing support systems seems to have a significant role on increasing user satisfaction, improving treatment trend and increasing the patient s ability to do daily activities. Taking the above point into account, in this paper we are going to describe the personalization process of Spinal Cord Injury Mobility and Transfer Support Application which is based on Case -Based Reasoning (CBR). The support application will provide personalized educational contents such as videos teaching mobility and transfer, text and audio guides, according to the patients characteristics. In order to optimize the personalization process, performance of the support system was evaluated in two situations, changing the number of clusters and changing the similarity threshold. At the end, the results concluded that CBR can be used as an effective method in personalizing medical support systems.

کلیدواژه ها:

Case-based reasoning ، support application ، personalization ، spinal cord injury